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Doug

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Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

And they had to go through a lot of homeless people.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

But that's part of the nature of progress. That's the business. It's like I said last week. You've got to destroy some jobs.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

But that's part of the nature of progress. That's the business. It's like I said last week. You've got to destroy some jobs.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

But that's part of the nature of progress. That's the business. It's like I said last week. You've got to destroy some jobs.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

So your reaction is probably everybody's reaction, which is Waymo and the other major autonomous driving vehicles. So Waymo, for people who don't know, these cars are, they do not have a driver. There's no driver in them. And they're going around Los Angeles, I believe Phoenix, I wrote it down, in San Francisco right now. So they're in three cities. They're expanding rapidly.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

So your reaction is probably everybody's reaction, which is Waymo and the other major autonomous driving vehicles. So Waymo, for people who don't know, these cars are, they do not have a driver. There's no driver in them. And they're going around Los Angeles, I believe Phoenix, I wrote it down, in San Francisco right now. So they're in three cities. They're expanding rapidly.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

So your reaction is probably everybody's reaction, which is Waymo and the other major autonomous driving vehicles. So Waymo, for people who don't know, these cars are, they do not have a driver. There's no driver in them. And they're going around Los Angeles, I believe Phoenix, I wrote it down, in San Francisco right now. So they're in three cities. They're expanding rapidly.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

The other big one that's going on is Baidu, which is a Chinese company. They're also doing this with driverless cars in five different major Chinese cities. So there's two major leaders right now that are currently deployed doing this stuff. And then Tesla is the other big player in the space. Tesla, though, does not have these systems, right? They do not have LiDAR. They do not have radar.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

The other big one that's going on is Baidu, which is a Chinese company. They're also doing this with driverless cars in five different major Chinese cities. So there's two major leaders right now that are currently deployed doing this stuff. And then Tesla is the other big player in the space. Tesla, though, does not have these systems, right? They do not have LiDAR. They do not have radar.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

The other big one that's going on is Baidu, which is a Chinese company. They're also doing this with driverless cars in five different major Chinese cities. So there's two major leaders right now that are currently deployed doing this stuff. And then Tesla is the other big player in the space. Tesla, though, does not have these systems, right? They do not have LiDAR. They do not have radar.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

They don't have this extra layer of knowledge and information that a Waymo has. Just cameras. Just cameras. And so Elon Musk has said the following. LiDAR is a fool's errand and anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed. Pauses. Doomed. Expensive sensors are unnecessary. It's like having a whole bunch of expensive appendixes.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

They don't have this extra layer of knowledge and information that a Waymo has. Just cameras. Just cameras. And so Elon Musk has said the following. LiDAR is a fool's errand and anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed. Pauses. Doomed. Expensive sensors are unnecessary. It's like having a whole bunch of expensive appendixes.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

They don't have this extra layer of knowledge and information that a Waymo has. Just cameras. Just cameras. And so Elon Musk has said the following. LiDAR is a fool's errand and anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed. Pauses. Doomed. Expensive sensors are unnecessary. It's like having a whole bunch of expensive appendixes.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

So, all right. So you probably are thinking, you know, hearing this and going like, why would you not just add the extra stuff?

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

So, all right. So you probably are thinking, you know, hearing this and going like, why would you not just add the extra stuff?

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

So, all right. So you probably are thinking, you know, hearing this and going like, why would you not just add the extra stuff?

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

Basically, yes.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

Basically, yes.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

Basically, yes.

Lemonade Stand
Is Tesla Doomed? | Ep 002 Lemonade Stand

Right. Ah, right, yeah. So there's two big arguments here. So again, the obvious response to this is like, holy shit, I'm not going to get in a car if it doesn't have LiDAR, if it doesn't have these extra sensors. Like, why on earth would I ever get into a Tesla and let it drive me somewhere if Waymo has more information, more sensors? To give you a sense of numbers...